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Same As It Ever Was

Hardcore Republican politicians will always kick and thrash and scream about the same tired bullshit. Grow up, you fucking babies!

That said, the Happle Tea site is now completed. Users can comment on comics, but require at least one previously accepted comment before they can post regularly. I’ve also allowed gravatar images to be used as icons. It took me a week of hard work but I’m glad it’s finally done and working. If you see any issues with the site, please contact me: k@10km.org.

I’ve begun advertising using Project Wonderful. I’d like to see how well it works and maybe once I start generating traffic, I can put an ad box on my own site. We shall see! New content will be posted this week, I’m writing strips today and working on them this week now that the site is done!

A NOTE, TWO YEARS LATER: This strip is the only strip in the archive that has caused me to receive (a few) legitimately angry comments or emails. I just wanted to clarify my own position here. I’m not a democrat, nor am I a republican. I almost universally despise politicians of both parties and their ideologies. I do NOT hate people that vote republican nor is this strip REALLY about them. It’s about politicians using tactics to distract American Voters from real issues with a dog and pony show.

I’m a hardcore conservative, and my two best friends are gay. I think this would work just as easily if it was a donkey screaming cliched liberal sentiments. Personally, I’m not a big fan of deadhead fanatics on either side of the political landscape, but I do enjoy your storytelling with this strip. Even if the idea is wasted on me because it embraces a cliche, I still really like the way you frame it, and the dialogue of those watching.

Edit: Donkey: “Equality & Freedom of speech unless you don’t agree with us. Oh, and raise taxes, as well as freedom of religion unless your Christian. The government knows better than the individual and can fix everything”.

Cliches abound on both sides, Arex. And, while slinging mud can be entertaining, it’s actually 98% fruitless. Neither side convinces the other, and generally only the gulf yawns wider.

The conclusion I’ve come to is that people in the US have forgotten something important: the government is the enemy. It’s not left vs. right — it’s left AND right (and everyone else) vs. the government.

This sentiment is illogical. The government is made of elected officials. It regulates and maintains the things you take for granted. Think about how much the government helps everyone around you. The water you drink and shower with is clean because of the government. The car you drive to work, and the road (mostly) you take to get there are safe because of the government. The air you breathe is protected by government standards. The job you have must treat you as a person because of the government.

The internet that you and I are posting on right now was created by the United States Government. The government is not an enemy, it is a tool that you control with a vote.

The government is the enemy in the sense that it tries to distract everyone with foolish pandering and grand standing on issues. Rather than focusing on real issues and real progress, we’re lead to fight each other over stupid shit like abortion and gay rights which shouldn’t be issues at all. Whatever your religion says, you have no right to tell other people what they can and cannot do. If you believe that abortion is wrong, you don’t have to have one. If you believe gay marriage is wrong, you don’t have to be married to someone of the same sex.

What people seem to forget in these inflammatory arguments is that freedom for others to do what they wish is NOT somehow disgracing your religion or your beliefs.

What we need is a political party built entirely on irony. It’s mascot could be like a Platypus or something awesome like that. They could advocate that a law be passed stating all pregnancies should end in abortion and that people are required by law to marry individuals of the same sex. Also they would only nominate candidates born in other countries and claim that the only important legal document is the Declaration of Independence which basically says that if we don’t approve of the government we have the responsibility to overthrow it and start a new one.

The strip was amusing even to a conservative such as myself. Though I did note that we were only spouting extreme right wing socially conservative ideology (makes sense having him yell “Balanced Budget!” wouldn’t be funny).

Secondly, while I agree with your sentiment K, that everyone should be happy and free there are plenty of cases in society where we don’t do this and never will. Murder is illegal, even if you are sociopath and murder and causing pain makes you happy. While age of consent varies all corners of our society place limits on how old you must be to enter into a relationship with another person regardless of notions such as Love.

“Funny comic based on hyperbole and select statements from an extreme group of the GOP but if you think it is a brush you should paint the entire party with then you are as ignorant as the extreme right who spout hateful speech.”

and if that wasn’t short enough I’l leave you with my favorite bumper sticker.

Great comment and you definitely understand what I was going for. I don’t write comics about political stuff very often because people tend to assume that through writing hyperbolic comedic stuff, that I somehow don’t understand the nuanced and varied views of the people that follow specific parties. While I don’t agree with the GOP, I also don’t agree with the democrats. Both have a few things to say that I think could be valuable, but it the parties themselves (the people in our government, not so much the average folks that elect them) tend to be hyperbolic caricatures of human beings. This comic is addressing the party elect, specifically the ridiculous cartoon-people that choose to spout nonsense rather than handle the real issues facing our country

Perhaps, in part, a reason this particular strip received extra attention(or emails) was because it has your email in the comments, people are more likely to email about a comic if the address is more readily available.